Mushroom Musume
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Once upon a time, there was a lonesome Recluse, plagued with the desire to raise a child. Wandering nearby, the strange Witch of the Woods overheard this wish, and with a twisted humor gifted them a pot of dirt. Help guide the Recluse through the maze of fungal parenthood, then discover how many types of person (mushroom?) your Daughter can become!
When one Daughter falls, start over and discover new corners of the world... and a treasure trove of secrets and unlockables!
Raising a child is hard, raising a mushroom is no easier. Any little thing you do can change your Daughter's path in life - will she grow into a pretty little Fly Agaric or an uncanny and indomitable Cordyceps? A parent's role is key, so take it seriously... or perhaps you'd rather relax. There's always next time, after all!
The world of Mushroom Musume is fun and unusual, full of whimsical moments and unexpected dark corners. Discover shocking new outcomes and twists in familiar events by playing again as a different Daughter. Choose alternate paths, and gain a more complete picture of this odd world. Perhaps even spend time in a tale-within-a-tale and see the world through (slightly less) fungal-colored glasses...
You can find almost any color in fungi, and that's true of your Daughter too. Collect memories of Daughters past, colors, music, and more in your own personal Mushroom Almanac. With tons of treats to discover, foraging for everything could take years!
Mushroom Musume is filled with...
- 180,000+ words of story
- Hundreds of photographs and illustrations
- Over two hours of beautiful and haunting music
...So please, take a seat and enjoy your time spent as a mycological parent!
Note: Mushroom Musume is still in active development! While we're starting to get pretty close to our ideal of a stable, feature-rich, build, we're not quite there yet. As such, there may unfortunately be some instability of save files between versions. This was originally a game jam game, so a lot of work is being put into making the code and systems at play more robust, so please bear with us~!
Notice a bug? Submit it to us through Google Forms!
~ 🖤🪦 Oh ruinous day!... The Crumbling Foundations Update is out now! ~
After six months of polish, we're proud to announce a new update featuring doomed daughters, cruelty, and revenge (oh, what fun!)... Discover two new types of mushroom, enjoy a fully redesigned Almanac (plus other fun UI improvements), and explore 30,000 words of new events, stories, secrets, and final challenges! (Not to mention eight grooving new music tracks~)
Click to Expand Credits!
| Elita, character artist | @WieldAdventure on Twitter |
| Autumn Greenley | Autumnotopia on Cohost |
| Joey | --- |
| Rose | --- |
| Steph, photographer | @girlpoisoner on Twitter |
| Andrew Tran | @BearLovingNerd on Twitter |
| Zaozoruzhna, composer | @Zaozoruzhna on Twitter |
| Mortally Moonstruck Games | @MortalMoonGames on Twitter |
Soundfont Credits:
| "Thomas Hammer - HS Strings" ©2016 by Thomas Hammer as licensed under CC BY 4.0 |
| "Alex's GM Soundfont" ©2020 as liscensed under CC Attributed 3.0 Unported |
| "KBH Real and Swelling Choirs" ©2016 as liscensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International |
| "Orchestral Battery" ©2017 by E-mu Sound Central as liscensed under CC BY 4.0 |
| "Studio FG460s II Pro Guitar Pack" ©2017 by Mitrofanis George Gemitros as liscensed under CC BY 4.0 |
Thanks to Eeve Somepx (itch | Twitter) for our main game font, Compass Pro!
Steam, Twitter, and Tumblr icon by Icons8
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Development log
- 🪰 Bug Fixes and UI Adjustments, Oh My!35 days ago
- 🖤🪦 Oh ruinous day!... The Crumbling Foundations Update is out now!Dec 05, 2023
- Full Steam Ahead! 🚂Oct 23, 2023
- 🎃 A Trailer, Queer Halloween Stories Bonus, and More!Oct 01, 2023
- Bugs in the Dark 🐛🪦 The Revenger's Story Has Been UpdatedAug 29, 2023
- Back to Basics! 💎 The Foundations Update is Out Now!Jun 09, 2023
- A Fungal Year in ReviewJun 01, 2023
- What Month Is It...? 🌷 Why Mushroom Musu-May, Of Course!May 01, 2023
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soo cute! but also creepy, in a good way. I feel bad for the brown mushrooms, their so cute! they dont deserve to be called underdeveloped. I have no idea what I did that made my girl not develop.
IF YOU GET SHELL SHOCK AND GO BE A WRESTLER THE KAPPA **SHOWS UP AND THROWS JIM OUT OF THE RING** HOLY SHIT IT WAS A HUGE TWIST I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT ESPECIALLY THE SONG MY GOD GOOD JOB MAN
i am so in love w/ and so inspired by this game. actually frothing at the mouf for its full release!!
This is genuinely one of the best games I have ever played, I adore it way too much. The writing is amazing and hilarious, the art and music are beautiful, and I can't even begin to describe how good the gameplay is.
Long story short, I love this game and now have a crippling addiction to playing it.
The game seems to not be saving my progress on pc. Is there a fix for this?
Hi! Having encountered exceptions that stop be being able to get past the load screen for the android ver, I decided to give the windows version a go - is it intentional that the windows version doesn't have access to the same features the android one does?
On the plus side this lil hiccup did spur me into wishlisting on steam finally, so there's that! I love my mushy lil lassies and when the game is closer to release I'm gonna be hollering about it <3
(Also, thank you for playing and letting us know something was up! 💖)
Oops! It looks like the tech we were using for some new additions was breaking the Android version -- we just released a new build now that shouldn't crash on startup.
We accidentally released some of the features we were working on for the full release in a recent Android version, so you may have seen some of those previously! We removed them (for now) so we can finish them up! Consider it a lil sneak peak hehe
I've probably commented before, but I absolutely adore this game. I started playing again today and went from being confused about "purple??" to be confused about the fact i grew a potato. Regardless I love my potato.
I am absolutely adoring the game, I'm pretty sure I had a shiver go up my spine when I was reading throug the Cordyceps' spawning event, then I got the potato a few runs later and burst out laughing at the sheer confusion of everyone involved.
Hope the development is going smoothly, can barely wait for the full launch.
(spoilers below)
Hey! Absolutely love the game, just small question: how do you get the recluse's stamina to be higher than 8 ? When trying to get one of the (new?) endings "The Recluse's big night out" I think I need to dance but with stamina 8 I end up failing and in the end I only get "After all this time" as an ending. Does anyone have a solution to that, or if I'm doing something wrong please tell me ;-;
Otherwise, great game, so cute I looove playing it and I love the new updates added !!!
I know one of the ways is to bet a finger in the Gambling Fairy's encounter, it gets you 4 points if you win.
You do need more than 8 points though, I think you need it to be at or above 12.
Thanks!!! I'll try it and tell you if it worked :)
It worked :) seems like you need exactly 12 or more lol! Also I found something else for stamina: if your garden is like ruined you are asked if you want to start over or not, and if you choose not to you gain 4 extra stamina lol. Anyways thanks!
My baby disintegrated into mold on my first run. 10/10
You talking about the "Can't Keep it Together" ending or is this related to the "Molding" trait?
Oh my! That's an interesting thing to encounter... That section of the game is a work in progress and shouldn't be available through normal means. Just curious, how did you get to the garden?
The Witch Hut and the Garden are both accessible for me on the latest Android release. I get the same [exception] when starting from Slo-Grow, but selecting [Ignore] on the bottom left allowed me to continue to the game.
I recently downloaded the Steam demo, and can confirm that the [Wishlist Mushroom Musume on Steam today!] banner is in the same place on PC that the Witch Hut is on mobile.
👀 uhhh well oops! I managed to totally miss that, thanks for letting us know. I'm going to patch that out now haha
(Consider that a behind-the-scenes sneak peak I guess!)
Egads! But what of my fenced-in 7x7 plot of stumps?
But I kid. I've truly enjoyed everything about this game you've made so far. Something about it is so melancholically enthralling.
could someone explain to me a guide of how to get romance? i keep meeting random girls but dont know how to find them again! eg, the nerd girl near mushys house and that random alien lady
I think you can only romance them if you meet them before you pick an aspiration. For most you just have to pick the gala option. The girl who’s after Cupid is her own thing though.
For most it's just meeting them before choosing your aspirations in winter, choosing to go to the gala and then choosing them as your partner.
The nerd girl has her own aspiration where you help her with hunting down Cupid.
Does anyone know how to get the two star poison type mushrooms? or can share a photo of what they look like
Only poisonous 2-star I've got so far is the Flame Coral. I think what you need to do is prioritise Robustness and the poison-related choices (the ones marked with the emblem that's under the "21" on the pic)
Not really sure though, only got her twice.
Please, how do I get the last 0 star mushroom-
I've unlocked literally every other thing in the game-
I actually dreamed about unlocking her this morning omg
lesbians and mushrooms best combo 💯💯💯 love this game!
HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MY KID
It's a mushroom, congratulations.
The poor kid is malnourished
idk why but the game not run. aaaaaahhhh * explotion*
no se por que pero el juego no corre. AAAAAHHH *explota*
I'm sorry to hear that! Maybe we can help... What operating system are you on, and does the game give any kind of error when you try to open it?
Cool game! But i do have a problem with it, when i downloaded it the "read me" folder was empty! I have no idea if there were any important things written on it.
FINISH THIS FUCKING GAME SO I CAN THROW A LOT OF MONEY AT YOU ALREADY!
Now seriously. With more content, and polish this game that ALREADY IS REALLY FUCK*NG GOOD IT COULD BECOME SO SO INCLEDYBLE
You guys are great at what you do! Please keep going! You have gold in your hands
(Also... If it isn't to much to ask.... More lesbic romance options with more kisses pretty please...)
I really want to play this game, but it literally won't let me play it due to a starting error :(
what it says:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/classes/garden.rpy", line 978, in <module>
File "game/classes/garden.rpy", line 179, in __init__
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'NoneType'
Any help please?
I should probably mention I downloaded this on a windows computer :)
Oh, thank you for the heads up...! It looks like a rogue file wiggled its way into the build, I just posted a new version that should fix this issue
Its working now! thank you for the assistance :D
Hello! I would like to reset my process on the game. Is there any way I could do that? I even deleted and re-downloaded the game. This is such an amazing and also my favourite game but sadly when I last played it I didn't put as much thought into naming my characters nor into making interesting characters so I'd like to start again without having 100 daughters.
Hi! If you select Settings from the start menu, there should be a 'Clear Game Progress' button (near the bottom, right above the Return button). This'll clear your Alamanac of all those pesky memories!
Thank you for playing!~ (Edited to add: this button was broken until recently, so be sure you're playing version .5d! It says which version you have on the About page)
Oh, thank you!
SOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!!! I played this bad boy for a few hours upon download, so so so much fun! It's adorable, and funny, and sweet-- love the dice mechanic!
THIS GAME IS SO ADORABLE! I almost cried multiple times, at first I thought it was going to be some simple tamagotchi-esque game with cute pixel art, but Oh My Goodness! The third chapter breaks and squeezes my rubbery cold heart too much! My preppy Pixel's Parasol daughter asked me to take her to the ball? My loner Slime Mold daughter escaped during the night to learn magic? My stoic & Dense chicken-of-the woods daughter rejoiced to give some kids a treat? I love all my mushroom daughters so much! I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS GAME T-T
I played again and gave my cordyceps daughter a old bow. Since then I have seen things that both scathed my psyche and made me laugh out loud in the middle of the night in the span of 20 minutes. I don't know what to say aside that this was the best text-based game I've played in my entire life.
The first time i played this I got the blooming Earth Star (probably from my poor decisions, I didn't get rid of the parasites) When her journey was finished, I CRIED. the end where you lose your optimism always gets me for some reason.
If you still have the safe file of your playthrough when you got Earth Star, or if you at least remember something else except not getting rid of parasites, can you please give any tips how to get her (Earth Star)? It's just the last one that I haven't unlocked, and I have no idea how to get her... > <
Hi, I tried to use the Google Forms for bug reporting but it required logging in.
That's a great game, but for my taste it's a bit to poetic.
EDIT: neverming i fixed it!!
i've a problem. writing here because it's not a bug (i think??) but i need help please ^^;
i accidentally messed up while trying to do something with save files. basically, i still have my saves, but i lost my almanac progress in version .5b. it still shows up fine in .4, and i have backed up a bunch of files, so hopefully there's a way to fix it. so can someone please tell me in which file the almanac is and if there's a way to make .5b see it properly? i think it disappeared when i tried replacing "persistent" from .4 to .5b. i also tried replacing or removing files in appdata in addition to editing saves in the game folder, and it didn't help. i also tried deleting the whole game folder and reinstalling it.
i ended up doing this because i had a daughter very stuck due to a bugged story event in .4 and after realizing there's no way to continue from there even in a newer version, i just wanted to have her grow up without it, but .5b wouldn't load older saves properly, so i just played until end on .4, but later realised that the new grown daughter didn't show up in .5b.. :(
if anyone has this specific issue, in appdata/renpy other than mushroom musume folder with saves there was also a tokens folder with files related to updating mushroom musume. i deleted them and sync folder in saves and just left v .4 saves and persistent there, and also deleted anything new in the game folder
Does anybody know how to get the veiled mushroom?
I'm curious on what had to happen for this game idea to come... Well but the game looks pretty attractive tbh, I'll give it a try :)
This game is lovely, I strongly suggest getting it no matter what, it's incredibly entertaining and has a great story no matter what you do, I found myself pleased even when I lost, 11/10 game, not to mention the art, truly extraordinary!
😭 It was over too fast… Seriously though, amazing game. I am curious, did I miss some stuff? I only ever unlocked the 2 magic thingies, never interacted past the cowbell, and lived a rather lonely life… Then again, I only played once… Is this game meant to be repeated many times? Thanks! Again, truly amazing game either way, I adore it
this game is meant to have multiple playthroughs! i myself have about 82 daughters and i still haven't 100%ed the game lol
Oh wow! Thanks :D
Encountered this error a few times randomly in the beginning of the game when you're raising the kid.
Ah, thank you for catching this! We've just pushed a new build that should fix it up~
such a great game <3
Thank you for posting! We just pushed a quick update that should fix this issue -- sorry about that~
https://mortallymoonstruckgames.itch.io/mushroom-musumeThank you so much
I have a terrible understanding of English but I still enjoy the game.
Att.ojala y algún día lo traduzcan a español.
Att 2:que juego tan bueno lptm
This feels like a form of bullying qq.
call your friend who played this game a LBM and watch them start crying
Fun, and pretty game, got lost as all heck in the kid story though. Then got jumpscared.